Custer County was hit as recently as 2026-06-03, 58 days ago. Custer County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-07-24 near Westcliffe.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Colorado. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-06-03, around Westcliffe. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Custer County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 16 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2018 alone produced 4 of the 14 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Custer County: all 14 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 1 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Colorado, see the Colorado hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Rosita -- 6 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Westcliffe (5). That one town is named on 43% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Rosita | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Sse Rosita | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 12 S Westcliffe | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Ssw Wetmore | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 9 W San Isabel | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs May through August: 14 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (100%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (36%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Westcliffe. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-07-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2018-07-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-08-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Fremont County (17 hail days), Pueblo County (76) and Huerfano County (13). Custer County sits in between.
Fremont County · Pueblo County · Huerfano County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Custer County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.